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Sailing to the Far Horizon

 

Sailing to the Far Horizon: The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship

 

Adventure/ Travel/Memoir

 

Published by Terrace books, a Trade Imprint of The University of Wisconsin Press.

 

Newly released in eBook format; ISBN# 978-0299201944

 

NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!

 

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The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.

 

 

BOOK TRAILER: D.U.S.E. MEDIA

 

 

“The reader can’t help but mourn the loss of the ship and the crew’s improvised lifestyle, as well as feel the joy, danger, and discovery that the author experienced and never forgot.” —Booklist

 

“The story takes readers through Hurricane Kendra, civil unrest in Latin America, the arrest of the entire crew (twice), dengue fever, and a near mutiny. . . . Sailing to the Far Horizon is also a travelogue of the type of adventures many boaters dream of: gatherings with the Cuna Indians in the Gulf of San Blas, discovering ancient tikis in the Marquesas.”—Soundings

“The human stories embedded in this book, poignant and painful, reveal the way that a ship boils people down to their essentials. You really get at the heart of who someone is on a voyage, even before you add the defining element of tragedy.”—Jim Delgado, Vancouver Maritime Museum and host of National Geographic Television’s The Sea Hunters

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